Getting ext. Tibias wd be the best option for 5 cm (considering cost and safety both). I am planning the same too. PM me if you need some other relevant advice, would be happy to help.
Women should really try avoiding this surgery. It's a blossoming industry, but the cases with complications involving women are too notable to be just statistical noise.
Funny how Guichet wrote this some years back.
If you're asian and female, you should forget about this surgery. If you're just female, you should spend double or triple the amount of time doing research, gathering funds, and thinking about this whole thing. If you think you can do this surgery to get "beautiful, long, model legs", you just don't know anything about it. By the way, we have a reported death from last year; an African-American woman of normal weight died after attempting to go through external femoral lengthening (cause of death was fat embolism). I just can't see too many reasons why an at-risk group would be willing to risk so much of their finances and health for this, specially when the gains won't be life-changing.
Anyway: remember that no LL doctor has ever had CLL performed on themselves. Limb discrepancy, corrections and reconstructions in children are what keep them going and help them maintain their moral compass. CLL patients are just willing lab rats. The fact that some act as salesmen towards these procedures could make one to become wary. The most moral doctors seem to have height limits and don't actively advertise their CLL activity.
Quote from: Thatdude950 on September 22, 2017, 10:38:30 AMIt makes *no* sense to do this, lol.
Your walking will be affected
You'll have scars
Financially you'll be in a huge hole
And that's assuming a best case scenario with no complications.
The medical technology is not there yet. Seriously- forget it.
Doing LL as a 9/10 woman to be a model..........
OP, assuming you really are that good looking and are 5'6", there is absolutely zero to gain from you doing LL. You are, in my opinion, the perfect height for a female already, and if you're that good looking, life should be easy for you (especially dating/social presence). I have a 9/10 face, but as a 5'5"+ guy, my height completely negated that. Now at 5'8.25" and my looks, I'm doing just fine and very happy with myself. More height would be nice, but there is no way in hell I would do another LL.
Please do not do LL. You absolutely do not need it.
dupe
Quote from: Chap on March 27, 2018, 09:54:11 AMGetting ext. Tibias wd be the best option for 5 cm (considering cost and safety both). I am planning the same too. PM me if you need some other relevant advice, would be happy to help.
Don't listen to this person and don't go into this surgery without research and lots of thinking.
Hate to break this to you but agree with the discouragers here. You are a little deluded if you think you can break into the modelling world with this surgery.
21 is already a little old to start, but by the time you've had this barbaric procedure done and assuming all goes well and you somewhat return to normality after a few years with the battle wounds to show for it.. you get the drift.
There are already thousands upon thousands of girls with 10/10 faces and with the required height to be models, yet very few make any significant inroads.
As a man who put 4 inches on his femurs with internal, you can look at my photos at the link below, but considerations are very different for men and women.
Pursue other stuff as already suggested above.
Best of luck.
http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=9023.0
what are the risks that this surgery presents to a female vs a male?
Quote from: Knik on August 01, 2017, 12:06:30 PM
why she couldn't ? stop thinking you will look like Manute Bol with LL
but you should not, in truth 168 cm is already above female average (where you from ?)
And there is already many 5'6 models, even some famous ones. You are rating yourself 9/10, if it's the case 5cm won't change anything, I promise it.
Except that, internal could be a better choice for femur. 5cm is good. If you make it, good luck.
It's cool you're trying to keep it positive but make sure you know what you're talking about. Unless you're Kate Moss, you're not walking the runway at 5'6, assuming TS is thinking about runway modeling, imagine having done LL and having to wear 5+ inch heels.
For once I can agree mostly with Body Builder only I wouldn't flat out say forget being a runway model as there have been several ~170cm models on ANTM who have done very well, but be open and look into other forms of modeling as well.
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